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Authors:Ghaffari; Nadia Abstract: While a growing body of literature explores police technologies and their general implications, there is a gap in the literature around empirical study of what is actually happening on the ground and how resistance is mobilizing. By centering activists as a lens to investigate police practices, my research captures how police in the San Francisco Bay Area are utilizing surveillance technologies and how activists have mobilized to resist and challenge their use. I examine what the state publicly says that police should be doing with regard to technology usage, what media accounts say they are doing, what organizers reveal them to be doing in practice, and how organizers are responding. Through my empirical analysis, police and state rhetoric of “public safety” clashes with activist narratives of police abuse of power in an increasingly harmful and controlling surveillance state. Surveillance technologies are portrayed as “essential” for stopping crime when in reality, this framing... PubDate: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +000
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Authors:Bogaard; Liesl Abstract: To better understand the processes through which eating habits during childhood are carried over into adulthood, I asked the question: under what circumstances and through which patterns do the feeding behaviors of parents become replicated and emerge as habitual in their children during young adulthood' I aim to investigate how parenting style and parent behaviors surrounding food and diet influence children’s dietary habits in the long-term. Previous research indicates that income is a major factor determining parents’ feeding behavior, so I set out to combine income level and parent feeding style in one study. I hypothesized that young adults who recalled their parents engaging in behaviors associated with the authoritative parenting style would be most likely to replicate those eating behaviors as habit from childhood into young adulthood. To better understand the process through which these variables ultimately cultivated the dietary behaviors of the young adults I interviewed,... PubDate: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +000
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Authors:Halliwell; Helen Abstract: This paper focuses on, in short, education, community, and self. It begins with an analysis of how John Clare’s attention to his surroundings results in detailed poetry that ultimately becomes an educative project. This paper looks at some of Clare’s nest poems, specifically his ground nest poems, looking at techniques of rhythm, vocality, and dialect language. To figure Clare as an educator, however, establishing him as a person with a specific authority, we are led to a discussion of an in-betweenness in relation to communities — the natural and human. This paper explores the sense of centeredness in belonging in combination with a simultaneous marginalization, an eddying between understandings of self and others. Finally, this analysis suggests the idea that this oscillation can itself become a form of belonging because it is derived from a thorough, detailed and attentive knowledge and understanding of the other — suggesting that to know a creature’s habits and vulnerabilities... PubDate: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +000
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Authors:Fang; Jiayu Abstract: After the three-decade-long one-child policy and the six-year-long two-child policy, China announced on May 31, 2021, that Chinese couples are recommended to have three children. To understand the Chinese public's responses to the new family planning policy, this research analyzed data from reposts and comments on thirty-five relevant policy posts published by verified news media accounts on Sina Weibo between May 31, 2021, and June 30, 2021. The results showed that Sina Weibo users found the policy disrespectful and difficult to fulfill in multiple realms. First, many complained that the new policy disregarded the one-child policy's influence while promoting a similarly fixed reproduction goal. They believed that the three-child policy mainly came from the nation’s need for more labor forces. Meanwhile, policy compliance was linked to patriotism. Second, without more governmental support, raising three children would be hard financially for many Sina Weibo users. High expenses... PubDate: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
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Authors:Clifton; Mallen Abstract: In the field of electronic literature, there is an interest in understanding current digital writing practices, termed third generation electronic literature. Many scholars claim that third-gen e-literature lacks an “aesthetic of difficulty.” This is a term introduced by Jessica Pressman, who applied it to first and second generation e-literature to describe the complex interpretation that must occur in their analysis. I claim that there is an aesthetic of difficulty found in third-gen e-literature, which I access through my concept “local intertextuality.” This phrase draws on the mathematical definition of local to specify intertextuality within a limited range of texts. Local intertextuality can be defined in two parts: firstly, the content directly connected to it through the platform it exists on, through creation by the same author, or interaction from the same users, among other possibilities; secondly, references to particular meme templates, fonts, and filters.By... PubDate: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
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Authors:McGovern Daly; Claire Abstract: This study examines how the United States Federal Courts have framed questions of fetal viability, fetal rights, and women's rights in abortion cases from the past three years, from June 2019 to January 2022, using the following frames: the right to abortion, the post-viability fetal right to life, the pre-viability embryonic right to life, the recognition of fetal heartbeat, and abortion as a crime. In cases in which the court supported abortion rights, the most common frame found in their opinions is the right to abortion, often specified as a civil, human, or women’s right. Yet the conditionality of this right is emphasized in two-thirds of the cases, with the courts clarifying that abortion is only a right prior to fetal viability as stated by Roe v. Wade. On the other hand, cases in which the court restricted abortion rights most often used the frame of the pre-viability embryonic right to life. Unlike the pro-abortion rights argument which focused more so on legal precedent... PubDate: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000
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Authors:Earp; Dylan Abstract: There has been an emergence in psychedelic science in recent years, in both basic and applied research. Clinical trials have shown psychedelic drugs to be exceptionally effective in treating psychiatric illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, while other research suggests they may be effective in treating a range of other indications in the future. Outside of the lab, study of illicit psychedelics and college students has shown that use of these drugs does not correlate with higher rates of mental health problems. However, studies like these fail to understand the scope of students’ experiences and may ignore potentially rich perspectives uncovered by qualitative methodologies. Thus, I interviewed 10 students currently enrolled at UC Berkeley in order to understand their psychedelic drug experiences. I found that UC Berkeley students have a wide variety of rich experiences with these drugs, including: 1. empathogenic effects of “classic”... PubDate: Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +000
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Authors:Afzal; Momal Abstract: The paper is inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism, where it is emphasized that the Occident feels the need to liberate the Orient. The reasonings of why Islam is perceived as the Orient today will be discussed, which will lead to a discussion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS’) oppression of the Yezidi women in Iraq and Syria. In a New York Times article, “ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape,” Rukmini Callimachi reports several accounts of Yezidi women who successfully escaped the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, where they were raped in the name of religion. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claim that sexual slavery is supported by the Quran, the holy book of Islam. Based on their claims of Quranic support, “the Islamic State [of Iraq and Syria] codifie[d] sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria” (Callimachi, 2015). Therefore, ISIS’ claim that Islam allows such an inhumane behavior towards females will be questioned while exploring Islam’s actual... PubDate: Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +000
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Authors:Earp; Dylan Abstract: There has been an emergence in psychedelic science in recent years, in both basic and applied research. Clinical trials have shown psychedelic drugs to be exceptionally effective in treating psychiatric illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, while other research suggests they may be effective in treating a range of other indications in the future. Outside of the lab, study of illicit psychedelics and college students has shown that use of these drugs does not correlate with higher rates of mental health problems. However, studies like these fail to understand the scope of students’ experiences and may ignore potentially rich perspectives uncovered by qualitative methodologies. Thus, I interviewed 10 students currently enrolled at UC Berkeley in order to understand their psychedelic drug experiences. I found that UC Berkeley students have a wide variety of rich experiences with these drugs, including: 1. empathogenic effects of “classic” psychedelics... PubDate: Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +000
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Authors:Venkat; Kaavya Abstract: Physician migration patterns are a phenomenon that affects the healthcare system within developing countries, but there is no strong evidence to show why doctors migrate to the West after getting an education from elite Indian medical institutions. This study aims to explain why physicians from India choose to leave given the different push and pull factors. Prior research shows that better opportunities for higher education, socioeconomic status, upward mobility, and equitable healthcare systems contribute to why physicians are attracted to the US and the UK. This leads to the next main question: which country do doctors prefer after moving away from India, the US or the UK' With further investigation through interviews, it becomes evident that there is no actual preference for one country. Each country has unique assets within the types of healthcare and lifestyles offered. Physicians note that social networks, support systems, and recruitment are all reasons for moving to the... PubDate: Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +000
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